On: Social engineering takeovers of open source projec...

[eviks]

> Has anyone ever bribed an engineer to make a bridge or a water supply less robust

Of course, this happens all the time, check the consequences of any earthquake in any corrupt country for the more visible examples

[01100011 → eviks]

Yeah, for sure. I was mainly thinking about, say, a foreign state actor doing the bribing and not just the usual grift/embezzlement/corruption.

[eviks → 01100011]

Ah, misunderstood, you mean something like a sneaky sabotage? Hm, don't recall any, the payoff seems to be too small and unpredictable? But I think there were cases of "poisoning" the design of some weapons